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Judge rules dealer David Nahmad must return $30m Nazi-looted Modigliani

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/06/judge-rules-dealer-david-nahmad-must-return-nazi-looted-modigliani

Closure of DePaul Art Museum leaves collection in limbo

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/06/depaul-art-museum-closure-collection-limbo

Overdue payments to artists, landlords and workers at a popular gallery reflect pressures squeezing the dealer sector

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/06/pressures-squeezing-gallery-sector-the-hole-new-york-los-angeles

Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds

https://hyperallergic.com/paul-klee-other-possible-worlds-jewish-museum/

Thomas Zipp, Visionary Installation Artist With a Punk Sensibility, Has Died

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/thomas-zipp-artist-dead-1234780157/

Ex-Staffers Say the US Holocaust Museum Altered Website and Canceled Programming to Avoid Angering Trump

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/us-holocaust-museum-canceled-programming-angering-trump-1234780080/

The New Museum’s ‘New Humans’ Reckons With Human-Machine Relations in the Workplace

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/new-museum-new-humans-labor-humans-machines-1234780038/

Israel’s Venice Biennale Artist Responds to Calls for Exclusion: ‘I Do Not Support Cultural Boycotts’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/israel-venice-biennale-artist-responds-cultural-boycott-1234780053/

How Josh Kline Wrote the Essay That the Art World Can’t Stop Talking About

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/josh-kline-new-york-art-world-viral-essay-interview-1234780103/

Famed Gelman Collection Will Return to Mexico by 2028

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gelman-collection-returns-mexico-2028-1234780114/

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Irreconcilable differences: Canadian cultural tourism to the US experiences a steep decline

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/06/canadian-cultural-tourism-united-states-decline-political-tensions

Monumental 37ft-long Indian scroll goes on public view for the first time at Yale Center for British Art

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/06/monumental-indian-scroll-goes-on-public-view-for-the-first-time-at-yale

At 250, America Must Reframe Its Founding Icons

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/op-ed-america-founding-icons-2759432

How the New Deal Treated Art as Essential to Democracy

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/new-deal-democracy-philip-guston-works-progress-administration-steward-davis-jacob-lawrence-1234780013/

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The Monumental Impact of Indian Miniature Painting

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/aicon-indian-miniature-painting-2761587

11-Year Restitution Dispute Over Prized Modigliani Ends With Loss for Nahmad Family

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/modigliani-restitution-dispute-nahmad-family-loss-1234779947/

Why Filmmaker Ming Wong Is the Ultimate Shape-Shifter

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/ming-wong-profile-national-gallery-london-commission-1234779829/

Gisela Colón on Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny, and the Power Beneath the Island

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gisela-colon-bruce-museum-puerto-rico-monoliths-1234778986/

Salvador Dalí’s Sublime Faith

https://hyperallergic.com/salvador-dalis-sublime-faith/

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The Louvre’s new director is inheriting a troubled, traumatised museum—can he repair the damage?

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/03/christophe-leribault-new-director-musee-louvre-inherits-traumatised-museum

Raja Ravi Varma Painting Sells for $17.9 M., New Auction Record for Indian Art

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/raja-ravi-varma-17-9-million-auction-record-indian-art-1234779868/

Record-Breaking $110.5 M. Basquiat Painting, Now Owned by Ken Griffin, to Go on View in Miami This Summer

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/basquiat-exhibition-pamm-ken-griffin-loan-1234779935/

David Nott’s Textured Abstractions Go Digital With LG Gallery+

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/david-nott-lg-gallery-2761492

Artist Ali Cherri files war crimes complaint in France over Israeli airstrike in Beirut that killed his parents

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/03/ali-cherri-war-crimes-complaint-israeli-strike-beirut-killed-parents

Uffizi Museum in Florence Denies Severity of Security Breaches Resulting From February Cyber Attack

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/uffizi-museum-florence-denies-severity-security-breach-february-cyber-attack-1234779859/

Canada returns 11 artefacts to Turkey in the first repatriation between the countries

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/03/canada-returns-artefacts-turkey-first-repatriation

Bic Family Heirs File Lawsuit for Return of Fra Angelico Painting ‘Stolen’ by Chauffeur

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bic-heirs-lawsuit-stolen-fra-angelico-painting-1234779832/

Human Rights Foundation Petitions UN on Behalf of Jailed Chinese Dissident Artist Gao Zhen

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gao-zhen-human-rights-foundation-petition-1234779866/

German Provocateur Artist Sentenced to 8.5 Years in Prison in Russia After Mocking Putin

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/german-artist-sentenced-prison-russia-after-mocking-putin-1234779836/

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Vaccine billionaire buys $17.9m Raja Ravi Varma, setting new record for Indian painting at auction

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/02/vaccine-billionaire-buys-179m-raja-ravi-varma-setting-new-record-for-indian-painting-at-auction

Stolen Van Gogh Back on View at Dutch Museum After Dramatic Restoration

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/van-gogh-parsonage-garden-groninger-restoration-2761471

Cecily Brown Turns Pastoral Visions Into Painterly Chaos in Her London Museum Debut

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cecily-brown-picture-making-serpentine-2760846

Paul Pfeiffer will be inaugural artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center arena

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/02/paul-pfeiffer-artist-residence-barclays-center-arena-brooklyn

Unesco grants enhanced protection to 39 Lebanese heritage sites as war escalates

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/02/unesco-grants-enhanced-protection-to-39-lebanese-heritage-sites

Frieze New York to Include Whitney Biennial Commission and New $50,000 Acquisition Fund

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/frieze-new-york-2026-highlights-whitney-biennial-commission-1234779686/

Lebanese Artist Ali Cherri Files War Crimes Complaint Against Israel After 2024 Beirut Bombing

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lebanese-artist-ali-cherri-files-war-crimes-complaint-against-israel-after-2024-beirut-bombing-1234779773/

Trump’s White House Ballroom Plan Stalls as Congress Balks

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/trump-white-house-ballroom-halted-congress-1234779783/

Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Arena Launches Art Program, with Paul Pfeiffer As First Artist-in-Residence

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/barclays-center-brooklyn-art-program-1234779742/

Melvin Edwards, Who Sculpted a New Vocabulary for Political Art, Dies at 88

https://hyperallergic.com/melvin-edwards-who-sculpted-a-new-vocabulary-for-political-art-dies-at-88/

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Bavaria restitutes Lesser Ury painting to the heirs of a Jewish banker

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/01/bavaria-restitutes-lesser-ury-painting-heirs-of-jewish-banker

New York’s Jewish Museum opens Paul Klee exhibition without its centrepiece

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/01/paul-klee-angelus-novus-missing-exhibition-jewish-museum-new-york-iran-war

Experts Sound Alarm Over the Brazen Museum Heist in Italy

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/magnani-rocca-foundation-heist-experts-2761113

Two Monet Paintings, Unseen for a Century, Resurface at Auction

https://news.artnet.com/market/monet-paintings-unseen-for-a-century-sothebys-2760767

Sinners, Maurizio Cattelan Is Taking Confession

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/maurizio-cattelan-avant-arte-confessional-2760955

In a month of war, Iran’s cultural heritage has suffered huge damage

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/01/in-just-a-few-weeks-irans-cultural-heritage-has-suffered-huge-damage

China Orders Nationwide Museum Audit After Missing Masterpieces Scandal

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/china-museum-audit-nanjing-art-scandal-1234779610/

Teresinha Soares, Brazilian Artist Behind Erotic-Inflected Works That Slyly Defied Taboos, Dies at 99

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/teresinha-soares-brazilian-artist-dead-1234779626/

Could Colorado Create the Country's First Artist Corporation?

https://hyperallergic.com/could-colorado-create-the-countrys-first-artist-corporation/

Kamrooz Aram Breaks Down the Grid

https://hyperallergic.com/kamrooz-aram-breaks-down-the-grid/

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Germany to create council to oversee restitution of colonial-era acquisitions

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/31/germany-to-create-council-to-oversee-restitution-of-colonial-era-acquisitions

Pinakothek in Munich Returns Nazi-Looted Painting by Lesser Ury to Jewish Heirs

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pinakothek-munich-nazi-looted-painting-restitution-1234779536/

Iran’s arts community and heritage suffer as US-Israeli attacks continue

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/31/irans-arts-community-and-heritage-suffer-as-us-israeli-attacks-continue

Exclusive | The world's 100 most visited art museums in 2025: new venues a big hit with visitors

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/31/exclusive-the-worlds-100-most-visited-museums-in-2025-new-museums-a-big-hit-with-visitors

Venice Biennale Artists Push to Ban U.S., Israel, and Russia From Exhibition

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/venice-biennale-open-letter-protesting-israel-russia-usa-2760437

Plan to build border wall along the Rio Grande in Texas threatens prehistoric rock art, locals warn

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/31/lower-pecos-river-rock-art-threatened-mexico-us-border-wall-construction-texas

Rare Rauschenberg Experimental Dance Revived at Brooklyn Roller Rink

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rauschenberg-roller-dance-pelican-brown-xanadu-2760646

Mexico’s art community calls for greater transparency in management of treasured collection

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/31/gelman-santander-collection-loans-mexico-spain-transparency-open-letters

Gladstone Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Pope.L, Boundary-Crossing Performance Artist

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/gladstone-gallery-pope-l-estate-artist-representation-1234779433/

1-54 New York Lines-Up More Than 20 Exhibitors, with a Special Focus on Brazil

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/1-54-new-york-2026-exhibitor-list-1234779513/

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Thieves Snatch Renoir, Matisse, and Cézanne Works From Italian Museum

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/magnani-rocca-foundation-heist-renoir-matisse-cezanne-2759844

Comment | A generational moment for Nazi-looted art claims in the US

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/30/leaders-generational-moment-nazi-loot-claims-us-hear-act-2025

Copy of Rembrandt portrait on display in Chicago is by the master himself, scholar claims

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/30/rembrandt-old-man-gold-chain-copy-autograph-art-institute-chicago

Guillaume Cerutti departs Christie's and other positions in Pinault’s companies

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/30/guillaume-cerutti-departs-christies-and-other-positions-in-pinaults-companies

Hong Kong Marquee Art Sales Total $164.9 M., Up 18 Percent From Equivalent 2025 Auctions

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/hong-kong-marquee-art-sales-sales-total-2026-1234779415/

Juan Uslé’s Childhood Shipwrecks

https://hyperallergic.com/juan-usles-childhood-shipwrecks/

Artist and Filmmaker Steve McQueen Wins $172,000 Erasmus Prize

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/steve-mcqueen-wins-172-thousand-dollar-erasmus-prize-1234779416/

Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ Could Leave Madrid for the First Time in Over 30 Years

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/picasso-guernica-madrid-loan-guggenheim-bilbao-1234779405/

Sky Hopinka Reframes the American Landscape at the Barnes Foundation

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/sky-hopinka-interview-barnes-foundation-exhibition-1234779396/

Secret Trial of Artist Gao Zhen Begins in China, Trump’s Design for White House Ballroom Critiqued, and More: Morning Links for March 30, 2026

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gao-zhen-trial-china-trump-ballroom-morning-links-1234779269/

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Labubu Gets a Star Turn on the Big Screen—Plus a Rundown of the Latest in Asia’s Art World

https://news.artnet.com/market/labubu-movie-asia-pivot-state-of-play-2759234

The IFPDA Print Fair Returns to the Park Avenue Armory, Illuminating the Relationship Between Prints and Drawings

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/sponsored-content/ifpda-print-fair-returns-park-avenue-armory-1234779127/

The MAGA Theory of Art

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/maga-theory-of-art-evangelical-film-nazi-weimar-1234779167/

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Jean-Marc Bottazzi on why good collecting is not about 'ticking boxes'

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/29/jean-marc-botazzi-collecting

Claire Tabouret’s Stained-Glass Windows for Notre-Dame Divide French Society, with a Legal Threat Looming

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/claire-tabouret-notre-dame-windows-controversy-1234779222/

Whitney Biennial, Can You Hear Us?

https://hyperallergic.com/whitney-biennial-can-you-hear-us/